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POLITICAL EXTHAC:TS 






FROM A LEADI]VG ADAMS PAPEU, 



THE MASSACHUSETTS JOURNAI^, 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED IN BOSTON 



BY 



DAVID L.^CHILD, 



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RECOMMENDED TO PUBLtC PATRONAGE 



BY 



n. A. S. DEARBORN, 
JOHN WELLES, 
SHERMAN LELAND, 
THOMAS H. PERKINS, 



ABBOTT LAWRENCE, 
OEORGK Hl-AKK, 
JOHN P. RICE. 



INTRODUCTION. 



(t/* The extracts which are -submitted to the public in the 
following pages, are from a leading Adams print, edited and 
published at Boston, (Mass.) by David Lee Child, and recom- 
mended to patronage by a Cikcular, under the bands of H. 
A. S. Dearborn, Collector of the Port of Boston, (1) — John 
Welles, a distinguished Federalist, — Sherman Leland, President 
of the Senate of Massachusetts, — T. H. Perkins, one of the 
Massachusetts Ambassadors, appointed by Caleb Strong, of 
'* Bulwark memory," " agreeably to the recommendation of the 
Hartford Convention,'''' — Abbot Lawrence, merchant, Somer- 
set-st. (see Boston Directory,) — George Blake, (2) U. S. Dis- 
trict Attorney, — and John P. Rice, merchant. No. 24 Fayette 
place, (see Boston Directory,) and brother-in-law to the Hon. 
Nathaniel Silsbee, of the U. S. Senate, and B. W. Crownin- 
shield, of the House of Representatives, from Massachusetts, 
ardent supporters of Mr. Adams, and patrons of the Massachu- 
setts Journal. It will be seen by reference to the circular, 
which is herewith submitted, that these gentlemen, among other 
objects, had in view the breaking down of the great Republican 
Parly, or to use their own language, " an oblivion of obso- 
lete PARTY DISTINCTIONS." To that party two of them owe 
their present offices under the government of the U. S. viz : 
George Blake, Esq. who has held the office of District Attor- 

(1) See Appendix A. (2) See Appendix B. 



ney, for tioenty eight years, and //. A. S. Dearborn, Esq. who, 
and whose family have been so long the special protegees of 
the government, that they seem to entertain the opinion, that 
they have an hereditary claim and right of presentation to all 
'the good livings in Massachusetts and IMaine. The support of 
the principles of " social order," " of personal and politi- 
cal SECURITY," was another object to which the undivided ener- 
gies of these gentlemen have been especially directed. And 
last, not least, an ardent desire to prevent the dissemination of 

" WILFUL and malignant FALSEHOODS AMONG THE PEOPLE, 
RESPECTING THE CHARACTER OF SOME OF OUR MOST DISTIN- 
GUISHED CITIZENS," is most sincerely expressed in their circu- 
lar ! ! ! How far they have adhered to the original purposes 
of their publication, in relation to the two latter objects, the few 
extracts exhibited in the following pages will abundantly show. 
How far they have been successful in breaking down the Re- 
publican party already appears. 



CIRCULAR. 



The circular published below, was extensively circulated in 
the States of JMassachusetts and Maine. It also appeared in 
the Massachusetts Weekly Journal, of September 3, 1828, un- 
der the following editorial remarks. 

" The following testimony in favour of the Massachusetts Jour- 
nal is submitted to the friends of our present undertaking. It 
was not intended origincdly for publication, but one of our 
neighbours having ferreted and brought it out as a proof of a 
frightful amalgamation plot, we have now no objections to its 
appearance any where." 

Boston, May 20, 1828. 

Sib, — The undersigned, Subscribers to the Massachusetts 
Journal, being firmly persuaded of its utility in the cause of 
the Administration, in the cause of Massachusetts and the Na- 
tion, and convinced of the existing necessity of affording it an 
increased and efficient support, in order that its editors may be 
enabled and stimulated to persevere in the course they have 
hitherto so ably and indefatlgably pursued ; take the hberty of 
addressing you as a friend to the important objects above stated, 
and of urging you to afford to this paper such a portion of sup- 
port and encouragement as you may find convenient. They 
would not on any account, interfere with the patronage of any 
other friendly and well conducted press. They are aware that 
there are many such ; whose claim to public favor rest on solid 



anil long established grounds, from which they neither can nor 
would detract. But they believe that the Journal has strong 
claims on the community, which may be satisfied without injury 
to the rights of others. 

The leading principles of the Journal are, a strenuous sup- 
port of the National Administration, and an oblivion of obso- 
lete PARTY DISTINCTIONS ; OF DISTINCTIONS ORIGINALLY FOUN- 
ded on an honest difference of opinion respecting meas- 
ures which have long since becoxme matters of history, 
but which have no longer any practical bearing on the 
political principles and interests of the present day. 

The Journal, took the lead in resisting the election 

OF A gentleman TO THE UnITED StATEs' SeNATE, WHO WAS 
SUPPORTED ON THE GROUND OF OLD PARTY SERVICES ; AND 
WHO HAS SINCE AVOWED HIMSELF FRIENDLY TO THE ELECTION 

OF General Jackson to the Presidency. An allusion to 
the firm and spirited conduct of the Journal on this occasion, 
is peculiarly gratifying, as this resistance proved successful. 
The Journal afterwards supported a liberal and frank Union 
of the friends of the Administration in the Spring Elections of 
last year : and this union partly succeeded in this metropolis, 
and was still more successful in many of the country towns. 
The consequence was, that Massachusetts was enabled to hon- 
our the man whom her citizens delight to honour ; and by so 
doing not only secured credit to herself, but important assist- 
ance to the Administration in the National Councils. 

The Journal has since persevered in the same upright and 
undeviating course. Its undivided energies have been directed 
to the support of the principles of social order, of domes- 
tic industry, of personal and political purity ; and of that 
government by whom these principles are adopted. The zeal 
of its Editors, supported by talents, and directed by an honest 
patriotism, has been certainly unsurpassed in our community. 



Now then, that we may enjoy many of the fruits of their zeal, 
let us not forget to reward those that procured them. 

Let us not imagine that any repuhhc can flourish without a 
constant reference to the political character of those who as- 
pire to office. The right of exposing the disqualifications of 
candidates for public office, is secured to us by the Constitu- 
tion ; and it is one that should be exercised with firmness and 
intrepidity, yet with moderation and a strict regard to 
TRUTH. The abuse of this sacred privilege, like that of other 
excellent things, is one of the greatest curses to which this na- 
tion has ever been subjected. Corrupt presses have been 
FOUND from Maine to Georgia, from the Atlantic to the 
Ohio, which have disseminated wilful and malignant 
falsehoods among the people respecting the character 
of some of our most distinguished citizens. We are a- 
ware that the number of these truly corrupt presses is small ; 
but their pernicious influence is great, and widely spread ; nor 
does any other effectual remedy suggest itself as commensurate 
with the disease, except a liberal and cordial public patronage 
towards those editors who have distinguished themselves by the 
defence of the injured, and by the exposure of their accusers. 

These general views and principles relative to public affairs, 
which we have thus briefly expressed, induce us to recommend 
to your notice the Massachusetts Journal. 
We remain, Respectfully, 

Your obedient Servants, 

H. A. S. DEARBORN, 
JOHN WELLES, 
SHERMAN LELAND, 
T. H. PERKINS, 
ABBOTT LAWRENCE, 
GEO. BLAKE, 
J. P. RICE. 



MWm of (Ken- S^tclt^on. 



EXTRACTS. 

No combination of circumstances could produce that effect 
(the election of Gen. Jackson), not even the death of Mr. Ad- 
ams. The more the people reflect upon the conduct and 

CHARACTER AND WANT OF PRINCIPLE OF GeN. JaCKSON, THE 
MORE THEY SHUDDER AT THE THOUGHT OF HIS BEING ChIEF 

Magistrate. 

He has served the people for a short term, (we believe his 
services have begun since Burr's conspiracy) — he has 
taken from individuals liberty and life, not only with- 
out law, but with signal mockery of its most sacred 

FORMS. 

For all his faults and crimes he appears not to possess a sin- 
gle redeeming quality, but the bravery of a ruffian and 
THE warlike cunning OF AN Indian CHIEF. Were he the 
heir expectant of an European Throne, would not his future 
subjects groan in anticipating the sway of one avhose charac- 
ter HAD BEEN DISTINGUISHED BY VIOLENCE AND BY A RECK- 
LESSNESS OF CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS. 

********** 

Constantino was violent, uxorious, and a gambler — Jackson 
is all this, besides being a Duellist and a Murderer. 

We recommend that all our friends do read the sixth number 
of the " Tcnnessean " — that they loan t/io paper to the honest 



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friends of General Jackson and circulate it widely as possible. 
Is it not amazing that such a man as this Andrew Jackson should 
have been able to stand before the public so long with his 
FALSEHOOD provcd SO by his own witnesses, uis chicanerv, 

HIS BRAWLS, HIS SWEARING, HIS SHOOTING AND DAGGERING. 

New-Orleans had better been lost a thousand times, than its 
defence should have brought this scandal upon the country. 
When this Election is over, and the man of the " Pistol and 
Dirk," the fireside Hyena of character is put down, we 

MUST HAVE A LUSTRUM performed in the land WE MUST 

have the constitution cleansed in the SAME manner as 

THE FARMER DOES HIS WHEAT FLOOR AFTER CATTLE HAVE BRO- 
KEN IN AND PASSED THE NIGHT THERE. 



He (Jackson) is a brave, hard-fighting man — he is a pro- 
fessed Duellist — one bet of ^5000 on a horse-race caused 

him TO KILL ONE OF HIS NEIGHBOURS. * * * 

The prominent acts of his life are acts of rashness, and a 
temper ungoverned has led him to a disregard of Laws hu- 
man and DIVINE. 



The General has no doubt given liberal promise of what he 
knows will cost him nothing ; — but as we are fond of having 
every one suitably rewarded, it might as the only resource be 
well for the Hero to recollect the blank commissions in his old 
Bureau, intended for the famous Burr Expedition, and 
fill them up for his '■'■ Brevef expectants, which by the v/ay will 
do just as well, for none of those for whom they are intended 
will ever recover sense enough to know the difiference. 

" Catch before you cook a flounder, 
Cried the learned Hannah Glass, 
Maxim wiser and profounder 
Than our Jackson sages pass." 
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General Jackson's connection with Burr's Conspiracy 
confirmed. 

There can be no doubt about the fact ; for uidependent of 
all circumstances and statements, which we have been spread- 
ing before the public for the last two years, we have now 

POSITIVE EVIDENCE OF JaCKSON's GUILT. ***** 
We HAVE KNOWN EVER SINCE THE YEAR 1822 THAT JaCKSON 
WAS CONFEDERATE WITH BuRR J WE HAVE KNOWN AND WE 
HAVE ENDEAVOURED TO MAKE OTHERS KNOW IT. 



Reader — Have you seen Richard die ? If you have you 
can comprehend our idea of the present desperate condition of 
THE TENNESSEAN SLANDERER— THE GREAT 
WESTERN BLUE-BEARD. 



Gen. Jackson swore at Baltimore that he would cut off the 
ears of that grand rascal W. H. Crawford. 



Jackson is a candidate who is destitute of every qualification 
either of temper, talents or experience. 



It is not yet quite certain that posterity will vote a Statue or 
Picture to be erected or suspended in the Capitol in honor of 
a man who has threatened to cane the Senators of 
Sovereign States within those very walls, and to cut 
off the ears of the Representatives of the people. 

Appropos — We should have had a hint for Allston, if Hamil- 
ton's proposition had passed. We would have suggested to the 
artist, the propriety of giving the General (Jackson) a Senator^! 
ear for a cockade, and six dangling militia men instead of twist- 
ed bullion for his epaulette, ^s for dress, we would have advis- 
ed him to cover him with the red-skins of Indian women. 



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The Victory at New-Orleans was more owing to the impru- 
dence of Packenham than the wisdom of Jackson. * * ^^ 
Gen. Jackson spent the prime of his life in gambling, cock- 
fighting AND horse-racing, AND HAS ALL HIS LIFE BEEN A 

most bloody duellist, and to cap all his frailties he 
tore from a husband the wife of his bosom, to whom he 
had for some years been united in the holy state of 
Matrimony. ******** 

I call it (the execution of the six Militia men) Murder in 
principle, and this bloody act in my opinion should forever 
debar him from the Presidency. Many more cases may be 
named of the cruelty and tyranny of Gen. Jackson, but shock- 
ing to the feelings of all humane men, nmst be the cases named 
and if true which 1 have no reason to doubt, it must astonish all 
reflecting minds that there is in this intelligent community men 
that claim a decent character and common sense, that are so 
regardless of their duty to their Country, as to put in nomination 
for President of the U. S. Andrew Jackson. 



On landing at the mouth of the Cumberland, some one 
told HIM (Jackson) of Mr. Clay's pamphlet in which he 

HAD completely PROVED HIS OWN INNOCENCE. ThE PIOUS AND 

accomplished Hero jumped to his feet, and stretching out 

HIS ARM, swore BY THE IMMACULATE GoD THAT Mr. ClAY AND 
ALL HIS FRIENDS WERE G D D D LlARS BY G D. 



There is a manuscript of Gen. Jackson's now in the hands of 
a member of Congress, in which good English is shockingly vi- 
olated. In twenty-five lines there are twenty-three words mis- 
spelt. He spells Canada — Canaday. 



Have we filled out the hst of Gen. Jackson's qualifications ? 
We have shown him ambitious of power and reckless of the 



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means of gratifying his ambition, — a man to he feared. We 

HAVE SHOWN HIM DESPERATE AND BLOOD-THIRSTY SETTING AT 

DEFIANCE THE LAWS OF GoD AND MAN, A MAN OF BlOOD. It 

REMAINS TO ADD ONE SHADE TO THE PICTURE. He IS A 3IAN TO 

BE DESPISED. A fficnd describes the General as most devoted- 
ly and laudably studious. He has gone back to the elements 
and daily exercises in ^lurray. When he writes he is flanked 
by Walker on one side, and a Dictionary of quotations (recom- 
mended by Major Lee as a most valuable auxiliary to the learn- 
ed) on the other. 



In Tennessee the Jacksonians knock men on the head who 
spread information before the public. 



These Jackson men and Jackson principles would have 

war every w^here would envenom every thing would 

rupture the tenderest and holiest ties j and blast the 

FEW FLOWERS WHICH STILL FLOURISH IN EdEN. ThiS IS THE 
TRUE SPIRIT OF THE JaCKSON PARTY ; IT IS THE SPIRIT OF 
HIM, WHOM THEY WORSHIP AND SERVE. 



Jackson, — The great moral Vampyre of the West, who 
is so distinguished for his love of human blood and recklessness 
of sacred things. 



A siain of the times- 



The Planet Mars, the patron of war-hawks and military Butch- 
ers, was nearest to the earth, and shining with his greatest 
splendour (as if rejoicing in the probable success of his client 
and pupil) on the 7ih of July last, the day on which the elec- 
tion in Louisiana commenced, since which day, he has receded 
and will continue to recede from us, with constantly increasing 
velocity, until he becomes a mere speck in the heavens, just 
large enough to tell us he once was. 



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If we countenance such principles, (Jacksonian) if we 

ALLOW SUCH MEN AS JaCKSON AND THOSE HE WILL APPOINT TO 
ENGROSS THE HONOURS AND EMOLUMENTS OF THE NATION, WHY 
THEN FAREWELL, A LONG FAREWELL TO ALL OUR HARD-EARNED 
GLORY, TO OUR UNEXAMPLED PROSPERITY. 



^Wm of JHvs* 3^tltmn. 

Is not the Honourable Chairman of the Boston Jackson Com- 
Liittee now on a pilgrimage to and with the master spirits. Van 
Buren, Cambreling, Calhoun, and even to the Chieftain him- 
self and his Lady (risiim teneatis) m Tennessee. 



Who is there in all this land that has a wife, a sister or 
daughter that could be pleased to see Mrs. Jackson (Mrs. 
Roberts that was) presiding in the Drawing-Room at Washing- 
ton. There is pollution in the touch, there is perdi- 
tion IN THE EXAMPLE OF A PROFLIGATE WOMAN " HeR WAYS 

LEAD DOWN TO THE CHAMBERS OF DEATH. AND HER STEPS TAKE 

HOLD ON Hell." And shall we standing in a watch-tower to 
warn our countrymen of approaching danger seal our hps in si- 
lence, in respect to this personage and her paramour, great 
and powerful as he is and captivating as he renders himself with 
his " bandanna handkerchief", " his frock coat'", his amiable 
condescentions, and the fascinations of his Bar-Room and pub- 
lic TABLE TALK. ******* 

The terror of Jackson's name and his daggers and triggers may- 
have frightened the managers of a Nashville Assembly and 

COMPELLED THEM TO " ADMIT " HIS SPOUSE AMONGST MODEST 
WOMEN ; IT SHALL, HOWEVER GO HARD, BUT HE SHALL MEET A 
FIRMER RESISTANCE BEFORE HE FIGHTS HER AND HIS OWN 
WAT INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL MaNSION. 



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ABUSE OF THE 

Senate of tije mnitt^ States* 

The sleeping partners. We have understood from a re- 
spectable source, that an appropriation of 15000 Dollars extra 
was necessary to defray the expenses of printing for the Senate 
at the last session by the Telegraph Establishment. It 
seems that the Jackson men who are a majority of this Body have 
taken care to oil their press in time for the approaching drovght 
in October next. Can the Jackson Senators individually 

LAY their hands UPON THEIR HEARTS AND IN THE PRESENCE 

OF God SWEAR that they have no interest, directly or 

INDIRECTLY, IN VOTING THIS EXTRAORDINARY Q,UANTITY OF 

printing into the hands of the Telegraph Establishment. 

Opposition Movements. Revenue Laws. — Mr. Livingston 
moved the consideration of a resolution he offered sometime 
since, on the subject of a Revision of the Revenue Laws — but 
the motion was negatived. 

Under pretence of instituting an examination and re- 
vision OF THE Revenue Laws, the real object was to 
constitute a Jackson Electioneering (not white-wash- 
ing) Committee at Washington to set through the sum- 
mer, TO be paid out of the Treasury and to carry on 
their operations under the advantages of an official 

authority and F0R3I. 



abuse of 

^Tije fton. JHattin Buren* 

Shall we surrender ourselves into the hands of Van Buren 
&t Co. or not ? For our part we feel an inexpressible indigna- 
tion and a most thorough disgust at the idea of yielding up the 
government of the nation to those conspirators who are tra- 



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VERSING THE COUNTRY, CHERISHING A VENOMOUS OPPOSITION, 

CORRUPTING THE PRESS, hc. Shall they succeed in their base 
SCHEMES f Will you permit a few political pedlers, who 
are wending their way from North to South to barter awny their 
consciences and their country for the promise of a place ? Will 
you permit them to controul your destinies ? 

Van Buren — that arch and irresistible intriguer. 



O ! Martin Van Buren ! If thou art not too far off, too busy 
to hear our small voice, be advised — change thy Editors or thou 
art undone — and all the expense and labour of so much writing, 
intriguing, travelling and printing will be thrown away. Thou 
tnust not make use of vessels which are so shallow, that they 
run over when thou attemptest to put enough into them to last 
during one of thy peddling peregrinations to the South, or of 
thy visits to the sensitive, blushing Van Ness in the North. 



It is the MIDNIGHT CABALS of Van Buren h Co. it is the 

development of a GIGANTIC SYSTEM OF INTRIGUE AND COR- 
RUPTION — these it is, which have produced the present state of 
public opinion. 



This print (the Troy Budget) accuses us of disrespect to Mr. 
Senator Van Buren, in calling him an " adventurer", a " ped- 
lar IN politics" ; HE IS BOTH : NO POLITICAL INTRIGUE IS 
TOO VAST AND COMPLICATED FOR HIM, NO TRICK IS TOO LITTLE. 



We do most sincerely believe every word which we have 
said of Mr. Van Buren — the Kinderhook Horse Jockey. 



VAN BUREN'S PANACEA. 

Agreeably to our pledge in the 98th No. of our Journal of 
making known as extensively and as promptly as may be, the 



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nature and effect of this wonder-working compound, we trans- 
fer the following well attested Certificate from the columns of 
the N. Y. American to our own. 

N. Y. Agency Office, 
April 9, 1827. 
To the Editors, — Not having observed the certificate of the 
late Governor Van Ness of Vermont among those published in 
your paper of the 6th inst. in relation to "Mr. Van Buren's Pa- 
nacea," and concluding that its omission must undoubtedly be 
the result of an oversight of the inventor, I have deemed it pro- 
per to furnish you with a certified copy of the one given by this 
patient, public for the benefit of all persons labouring under 

diseases of a like nature. Yrs he. Agent. 

C. P. Van Ness of Vermont, Air Castle Builder, having been 
for a number of years much troubled with a disease called Itch 
for Office, which a short time since assumed the United States 
Senatorial type, he had been induced to try various remedies 
for its removal — such as the expression of an unbounded confi- 
dence in the present administration of the general government — 
and supposing that the remedies he has made use of had almost 
cured him, he had accordingly applied to a convocation of learn- 
ed Doctors for the requisite certificate ; but tr> his infinite dis- 
may they reported unfavourably upon his case. The shock 
subsequent upon his loss of the " Loaves and Fishes " was so 
great that for a time he was completely insensible. On reviving 
however, he found that the itch had left him, but in its place, 
as he was assured by some of his acquaintances, he was com- 
pletely covered with blotches — the sad effects of remedies he 
had so ill-advisedly used. — To remove these Blotches, a Bo- 
lus y' cleped recantation was recommended ; but to his horror 
he discovered that his gullet was so straitened that he could not 
get it down. In this perplexity, the Panacea was urged upon 
him, as it was represented to be of so emollient a nature as to 



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render every one who used it, capable of " swallowing a camel," 
although formerly they might have " choaked at a gnat." Af- 
ter using five bottles, (the case being desperate) the recantation 
not only slipped down without touching, but the patient was en- 
abled to throw up, without gagging, a huge quantity of bile 
and a long string of accusations against the President and his 
friends which for several weeks had been collecting on his dis- 
eased stomach. He is now in his opinion, completely restored 
to his pristine health and is fully able, without exhibiting any 
hectic flushes to gulp down the pills which in the shape of con- 
tradiction, charges of misrepresentations, &.c. may from time to 
time be administered to him. In short he can well swallow any 
thing or every thing. A true Copy compared with the Original, 

Agent, 



A little more and Vermont would have been cursed with a 
Senator appointed by Isaac Hill and Martin Van Buren. 



We will, however, add a word on his (De Witt Clinton's) 
general political character which we find in a letter recently re- 
ceived by a friend, he. — It happily touches the point in dispute. 
" The Federalists of New-York" says the writer " have always 
regarded Mr. Clinton as a bargaining political scamp." 
With this we leave him and proceed to his worthy friend Mr. 
Martin Van Buren. This gentleman was originally a dealer 
in horses, as he now is in animals akin to that noble 

BEAST. 



He has placed himself before the people of Maine " a fixed 

AND lasting figure FOR THE HAND OF PUBLIC SCORN TO POINT 



ITS SLOW UNiMOVING FINGER AT. 

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ABUSE OF 



John Randolph is the chairman of this responsible and im- 
portant body (ways and means). John Randolph ! John Ran- 
dolph ! who is physically, morally and intellectually disqualified 
for labour and application. John Randolph who has been on 
many committees without once, even by accident, betraying 
any capacity or inclination to digest the details of public busi- 
ness. John Randolph who has been denounced as a queru- 
lous MANIAC SUBJECT TO INCESSANT EPILEPSIES OF INTEL- 
LECT, NEVER TO BE RELIED ON LIKE A STRANGE BEAST TO BE 

GAZED BUT NOT ADMIRED, NOR IMITATED, NOR ASSOCIATED 

WITH. We are not frightened at the denunciations of crazy 
Randolph, nor of wicked Mordecai with all the dregs of the 
New-York populace around him and before him. 

If it were necessary to prove that the mind of John Randolph 
has been unhinged and that he is now little better than a 
maniac, the proofs multiply on us every day. 

We know that there are hundreds and thousands of excellent 
and reflecting men all over the Southern States who despise 
and deprecate the bullying — Hotspur spirit of the McDuffies, 
the Hamilton's and Randolphs. 

It appears that Orcohrand (the Editor of the Boston States- 
man) holds sweet communion with the wild and malign spirit of 
Roanoke ! A very coseij couple, undoubtedly they must be. 
We hope that they will be mutually edified by the correspond- 
ence — injured, they cannot be ; they are perfectly safe on that 
score. One word to IMr. Randolph. — You deceive yourself 
most miserably if you believe that by flattering and cajolling or 
bribing such creatures as Isaac Hill, and Nathaniel Greene, 
you will be enabled to wield the " Democracy of New-Eng- 



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land." The strength, virtue and intelligence of New-England 
loathe those scurrilous characters. Your old latin saw Ache- 
conta movebo will not serve. 



Honest George Kremer and consistent John Randolph, crows 
of the same nest — brothers in the same party family — fellow- 
soldiers under the same standard — worshippers of the same idol 
— will go down to posterity together and the only remaining de- 
sideratum is that, in the same historical record which does hom- 
age to this Damon and Pythias of the 20th Congress, the full 
LENGTH FIGURES OF THESE POLITICAL GEMINI may accompany 
the records of their oral exploits. ***** 
The Judgment as well as reasoning power of Mr. Ran- 
dolph IS on the lees. ****** 
He (R.) is a Defamer, Declaimer and a Demagogue. 



Let us explicitly say that John Randolph is not a clear 
white man, but one whose stamina is savage. He has the 
education of a white man superinduced upon an aboriginal In- 
dian NATURE, IN which THE SAVAGE ABOUT Eq,UALS THE CUL- 
TIVATION OR RATHER SURMOUNTS IT. 



ABUSE OP 



" Lay on McDuff— 

And damned he he who first ciies hold — enoughs 

This (an extract from Mr. ^IcDuffie's speech at Charleston) 
is a beautiful specimen of Southern Patriotism — it may be said 
Southern Treason — " Moral Treason" at least, as Felix Grun- 
dy would call it. — Such hoivever as in France would introduce 
Mr. McDuffie to the guillotine — in Sjmin to the Inquisition — 
in Russia to the knout — in Turkey to the how-string, and in 
every country hut this to the gallows—and why not in this ? Be- 



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cause (we speak of our native New-England) we would not 

TAKE THE TROUBLE TO HANG SUCH A FELLOW.* He MJGHT 

PROBABLY BE DISTINGUISHED HERE BY A COSTUME OF TAB AND 

FEATHERS, ACCORDING TO ANCIENT REVOLUTIONARY USAGES, 

OR BE SENT TO THE HoUSE OF CORRECTION, WHERE HE MIGHT 

BE TAUGHT BETTER MANNERS. 

********** 

"Who is this Mr. McDufilc ? Answer — He is a trouble- 
some, FORTH-PUTTING DEMAGOGUE in Congress from Soutii 
Carolina. Out of Congress he is by trade a Duellist. 
But nevertheless held in contempt by the real Gentlemen of 
S. C. * * * * * There are others be- 
sides McDuffie. These are the gentry who are shaking the 
nation to its centre, to force upon it a vindictive warriour 
FOR President ; — and this his only qualification — half horse 
— half alligator. From such a calamity and disgrace may 
God of his infinite mercy preserve our Country and posterity. 



abuse of 



a^tn. JHc2Lr<in— Post M^^ttv ^tntvnh 

How prevent the Journal from going to Maine, if people will 
send it or send for it — unless that good Jackson man John 
McLean will order his Post masters to suppress it, as many of 
them have done. We presume this course would be full 
as lawful, as righteous and as honourable, as other 

things which McLean has done. 

********** 

It is discouraging to write and print and then have John Mc 
Lean to appoint Post masters who will burn the papers. 

*"Ito such blockheads set my tvit, 
J damn such fools — so, so you 're quit." 



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ABUSE. OF 

as^tn. Buff ^i*tnT> antr otijn* BistfnsiUsijrtr 

JACKSON EDITORS. 

DufF Green. " This wretch" &:c. * * * * 
Most assuredly, we think it unfortunate and scandalous, tliat 

THAT PROFANE, FALSE AND LAWLESS RIBALD DuFF GrEEN OF 

THE Telegraph should receive emoluments, &;c. 

The base Telegraph, of Washington, travels every where. 
That and the equally base Statesman of Boston overspread 
the land like the frogs and flies of Egypt. 

Portrait of the Telegraph. U. S. Telegraph. — The paper 
published at Washington under the above title by DufF Green 
and Russel Jarvis has no parallel for the scurrillity of its 

COLUMNS AND THE FEROCITY OF ITS NATURE in the histOry of 

politics. 



And yet on this statement (Binns' apology for the famous 
forged letter of John Harris) Binns has been gravely charged 
with the attrocious crime of " forgery," and that too not only by 
the Washington Telegraph, the Boston Statesman and the JVew- 
York Enquirer, hut even by the Richmond Enquirer, General 
Jackson himself, and by S. D. Ingham, a member of Congress, 
whom except that he is not a member, we should rank with the 
former scurrilous and cut-throat class. 



The foregoing extracts may be found by reference to the fol- 
lowing numbers of the Massachusetts Journal. 



December 


10, 


182G. 


June *" 


12, 


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April 


7, 


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5, 




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25, 


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28, 


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15, 


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28, 




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2, 


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24, 




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29, 


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11, 


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September 


13, 




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APPENDIX. 



[A.] 

Th& following is an exhibit of the amount of monies received from the 
g-overnment by the members, lineal and collateral, of the Dearborn family. 
It was first published in 1823. Since that time other individuals of that 
family have been appointed to lucrative offices under the government. The 
heap of patronage has rapidly increased, and it may be safely calculated, 
that at this day the members of the Dearborn family have pocketed more 
THAN HALF A MILLION OF DOLLARS of the people's money. The forego- 
ing pages show the manner in which some of it has been applied, m New- 
England. 

1801. — Gen. H. Dearborn, head of the family, Secretary of War, 

from 1801 to 1809, 8 years. Salary $ 4,500 per annum, - 36,000 

1801. — Joshua Wingate, jr. his son-in-law. Clerk in the War De- 
partment from 1801 to 1805, 4 years, at $ 1,500 per annum, 0,000 

1801. — Joshua Wingate, father of this son-in-law, Postmaster of 
Hallowell from 1801 to 1822, 21 years, fees of office $ 350 
per annum average, -------- 7,350 

1801. Gay, son-in-law. Postmaster of Gardiner from 1801 

to 1823, 22 years, fees $ 200 per annum, - - - - 4,400 

1801. Hobart, another son-in-law, Collector of the Port 

of Bath from 1801 to 1806, 5 years, fees and perquisites 

$ 2,500 per annum, 12,500 

1805. — Joshua Wingate, jr. a son-in-law, translated from a Clerk- 
ship in the War Office to be Postmaster of Portland, fees 
$ 1000 per annum, from 1805 to 1806, 1 year, - - - 1,000 

1806. — Joshua Wingate, jr. promoted from the Post Office of Port- 
land to the CoUectorship of Bath, on the death of his brother- 
in-law Hobart, from 1806 to 1820, 14 years, fees and emolu- 
ments on an average $ 2,600 per annum, - $ 36,400 
Extra perquisites in 1813, - 30,000 
Do do in 1814, - 35,000 

-101,400 



1806. — James Wingate, brother of Joshua Wingate, jr. Postmas- 
ter at Portland, vice Joshua Wingate promoted, from 1806 
to 1816, 10 years, $ 1,500 per annum fees, - - - - 15,000 

1809. — Gen. Henry Dearborn vacates the War Office and takes 
the CoUectorship of Boston from 1809 to 1812, 3 years, at 
$ 10,000 fees and perquisites, 30,000 



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1813. — Gen. II. Dearborn resigns the Collectorship in favour of 
his son and is promoted to be Major General, $8000 per an- 
num pay and emoluments, 3 years, . _ . . . 24,000 

1812. — H. A. S. Dearborn, Collector of Boston, vice his father, 
promoted, from 1812 to 1823, fees and emoluments $ 10,000, 
11 years, 110,000 

1812.— Wm. R. Lee, brother in law of H. A. S. Dearborn, Weigh- 
er, Guager and Measurer in Boston from 1812 to 1823, 11 
years, fees &c. $3,700 per annum - - - 40,700 

1820.— Joshua Wingate; jr. the son-in-law resigns privately, the 
collectorship of Bath, and Joseph F. Wingate, his brother 
appointed in his place, fees and perquisites $3,000 per annum 
3 years --.... q^qO 

1820.— Gen. H. Dearborn, Minister to Portugal at $9,000 per an- 
num,— 3 years . - . . . $27,000 
Outfit - - - - - 9,000 



36,000 



Three Grand-sons and one Nephew educated at West Point 

at the public expense, at $950 each ... 3^800 

Grand Total - - - . 437,150 

The money as distributed among the members of this favor- 
ed family is as follows. 

Gen. H. Dearborn— Secreta.ry of War - 36,000 

Collector - - - 30,000 

Major General - 24,000 

Minister Plenipotentiary 36,000 

T, ., o 126,000 

H. A. S. Dearborn — Collector - _ . 110 000 

Cen. J. Wingate, jr. — Clerk - - _ 6,000 

Post Master - - 1,000 

Collector - - 101,000 

$108,000 

W. R. Zee— Weigher and Guager, &c. - - 40,000 

Joshua Wingate, Post Master - - . _ 7,350 

Gay, Post Master - - _ 4,400 

Hobert, Collector - - - - 12 .500 

James Wingate, Post Master - - _ 15^000 

Joseph P. Wingate, Collector - - _ . 9000 

Grand-sons and Nephew's Education - 3*800 

$437,150 



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[B.] 

At the meeting* on Sunday evening at Faneuil Hall, the followinor letter 
from the Hon. Daniel Webster was read from the Chair and ordered to be 
published. — Mass. Journal, April 3, 1827. 

Saturday Evening, March 20th, 1 
Gentlemen — The fatigue of a long journey, does not allow me a 
moment of its termination, to meet you and other friends at Faneuil 
for purposes connected with the pending election, as you have so kindly 
requested. It would otherwise give me great pleasure to be present on 
the occasion, ray opinion on subjects of this kind are I hope, well known, 
they were fully expressed on a similar occasion two years ago, and I take 
the liberty to say, that all subsequent experience has tended but to strength- 
en, and confirm them. To me it has appeared, and now more dearly than 
ever appears, that our duty and true policy require us to cultivate union and 
conciliation among ourselves, to give to the Administration of the General 
Government an efficient support against all opposition, which is ground- 
less OR ME KELT PERSOAAL, and to take especial care in important elec- 
tions, so to conduct them, as not to stijle that general approbation, which is 
undoubtedly felt toward the measures of the Executive Government ; but 
on the contrary to give to these sentiments of approbation their natural, 
full and entire effect, under these feelings of duty and propriety. I shall 
most cheerfully give my vote on Monday for the re-election of the present 
distinguished Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth, and for such candi- 
dates for the Senate as I believe to be disposed, disregarding distinctions, 

WHICH HAVE NO APPLICATION TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THINGS ; to 

give n serious and cordial support in all just measures, both to the JVational 
and State Administrations. 

Repeating my regret at the circumstances which prevent me from meet- 
inor with you to- morrow evening, I beg to assure you of my regard, and 
am Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant DANIEL WEBSTER. 

To Messrs. G. Blake and S. A. Wells. 



*The above mentioned meeting of which George Blake, Esq. was Chairman, was called 
for the purpose of opposing the election of the Hon. David Henshaw and Andrew Diinlap, 
Esq. friends of Gen. Jackson, who were nominated on the regular Republican TitJtet as 
candidates for the Senate of Massachusetts. 



ADDENDA. 



EXTRACTS 

From the Address of the Central Committee, appointed by 
a Convention of both branches of the Legislature friendly to 
the election of John Quincy Adams as President and Rich- 
ard Rush as Vice President of the U. States, held at the 
State House in Boston. June 10, 182S, to their fellow citi- 
zens. 

From a careful attention to the progress of events, through- 
out the whole canvass, we find that the sober, thinking, and es- 
pecially the aged people, with the young men, who aim to ad- 
vance themselves by diligence, industry, devotion to business 
in their calling, and attachment to principle, are almost unani- 
mous for the administration. On the other side, are as 

GENERALLY ENLISTED THE POLITICAL MANAGERS, THE UNSUC- 
CESSFUL POLITICIANS OF ALL PARTIES, THE UNREFLECTING, 

AND THE ADVENTURERS. 

********** 

Presses, conducted by men without character and 
LOST TO shame, have been put forward, in front of the array. 

One OF THESE HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR THE PATRONAGE OF 

THE Senate of the United States, a body, which till 

THE organization OF THF. PRESENT OPPOSITION, HAD PRESER- 
VED ITS DIGNITY IN THE DARKEs-T TIMES. Others of like Stamp 
are scattered over the Union, and have given a character to the 



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controversy, which reflects discredit on the country. Our me- 
tropolis presents a signal example ; so outrageous is the press, 
enlisted in Boston in the cause of General Jackson, that a new 
opposition journal has been started, on the alleged ground, that 

the former was a scandal to any cause. 

********** 

Violence, scurrility, invasion of private character, 

and systematic disregard of truth are deemed essential to the 

presses, which oppose the Administration. 

********** 

We are called upon to trample upon the principle of our in- 
stitutions, to permit an uninformed warrior, in the language 
of Mr. Jefferson, on another occasion " to ride booted and spur- 
red" inM the Presidency of tlie United States. ^ 

* ** * ^t * * * * * 

Nor is the theory behind the practice. While the subordinat» / 

partizans are plying the people with every art of political in- 
trigue and management, goading them into madness against tri- 
ed and faithful servants, and exalting beyond the bounds of hu- 
man merit a man, whom they themselves had just taught the 
community to fear and despise, the leaders are occupied in 
poisoning the springs of the public judgment, and in- 
venting NEW TESTS of MORAL AND POLITICAL MERIT. 

********** 

It ought not to be omitted here, that in one of the districts of 
Tennessee, the friends of the administration are unquestionably 
a majority. But as club law is introduced in that region, and 
any person signalizing himself, as an opponent to the candidate 
of the majority, is subject to personal outrage, assault and 
ASSASSINATION, it is not impossible that the friends of the ad- 
ministration, consisting as they do of the friends of order and 
peace, may be driven from the polls, by mobs of armed des- 
peradoes, and prevented from giving their suffrage. 




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The Document from which the above extracts aie made has 
been pubhcly attributed to the pen of the Hon. Daniel Web- 
ster, which is not denied by him or his friends. It was signed 
by the following individuals. 

SHERMAN LELAND, Vi^ILLI \M W. PARROTT, 

WILLIAM B. CALHOUN, JAMES SAVAGE, 

H. A. S. DEAUBORN, JOHN R. ADAN, 

TIMOTHY FULLER, ABBOTT LAWRENCE, 

LEVERETT SALSTONSTALL, JOHN T. WINTHROP. J. 

'I UOMA9 WELSH, Jr. JOHN B. DAVIS^^ ^'^'^f^sddOl^^^ 

FRANCIS C. GRAY, S. C. PHILLIPS, ^ tn-G^ ^(x^^ 

JOSEPH E. SPRAGUE, '^ ' 

Massachusetts Central Committee. 



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